World Development is a peer-reviewed journal that focuses on global poverty, inequality, and social change. It publishes research on economic growth, education, health, gender, governance, and sustainability in developing countries. Articles cover topics such as poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, disease, lack of shelter, environmental degradation, inadequate scientific and technological resources, trade and payments imbalances, international debt, gender and ethnic discrimination, militarism and civil conflict, and lack of popular participation in economic and political life.